Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with update world

["John H. Moe" <johnmoe@optusnet.com.au>]

Dale wrote:
> Neil Bothwick wrote:
>   
>> On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:39:24 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>>
>>   
>>     
>>> You likely don;t need it then. device-mapper is only used by lvm and
>>> software- raid type packages. If you use those, you will know about it
>>>     
>>>       
>> It's also used by cryptsetup.
>>
>>
>>   
>>     
>
> Yup, I'm not sure if I am using that or not.  I don't think so but I
> don't want to remove it without making sure.  Be my luck it will blow up
> or something. lol  This is what equery returns tho:
>
> sys-apps/hal-0.5.13-r2 (kernel_linux & crypt? >=sys-fs/cryptsetup-1.0.5)
> sys-apps/pmount-0.9.20 (crypt? >=sys-fs/cryptsetup-1.0.5)
>
> Don't get me started on hal.  Is this a USE flag thing?  I need to check
> on this more.
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-) 
>
>   
That's pretty much what I ended up doing: emerge --unmerge device-mapper
&& emerge -aDNuv world.  Get rid of it, and let Portage tell me if I
need it or not.  :-)  Seems to be working still...

John Moe